And the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Again the devil tries to hinder the prophecy, and they had a mind to kill some, but the centurion suffered them not, that he might save Paul, so much was the centurion attached to him. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. (v. 43, 44.) And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
